Life scientists

Brian F. Volkman

Brian F. Volkman is an American biochemist and NMR structural biologist, professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin since 2010, known for work on metamorphic proteins like XCL1.

Brian Head (neuroscientist)

Brian Head is a neuroscientist and Professor of Anesthesiology at UCSD who studies gene therapy for central nervous system repair and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2012.

Brian J. McCarthy

Brian J. McCarthy was a molecular biologist whose 1980 Cell papers showed that Drosophila actin and tubulin gene families are scattered across chromosomes, defining dispersed multigene families.

Brian J. Staskawicz

Brian J. Staskawicz, born 1952, is an American plant biologist at UC Berkeley known for molecular work on plant immunity, CRISPR disease-resistant crops, and the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Brian K. Kennedy

Brian K. Kennedy is an American aging researcher and Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for the 2014 Cell paper linking aging to chronic disease.

Brian K. Kobilka, born 1955 in Little Falls, Minnesota, is an American physician-scientist at Stanford who determined the first high-resolution crystal structures of a G-protein-coupled receptor, sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Brian K. Shoichet

Brian K. Shoichet, also known as Brian Shoichet, is an American computational structural biologist at UCSF who develops molecular docking to find new drug-like ligands.

Brian M. Hoffman

Brian M. Hoffman is the Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, where since 1967 he has developed ENDOR spectroscopy to determine the catalytic mechanisms of metalloenzymes such as nitrogenase.

Brian P. English

Brian P. English is a Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, since 2013, who co-authored lattice light-sheet microscopy, the Janelia Fluor dyes, and protein-retention expansion microscopy.

Brian P. Sorrentino

Brian P. Sorrentino was an American hematologist and gene therapy researcher at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, best known for a trial restoring immunity in infants with SCID-X1.

Brian Popko

Brian Popko is an American neuroscientist who studies the myelin sheath and multiple sclerosis; he has been a professor of neurology at Northwestern University since 2020.

Brian R Calvi

Brian R Calvi is a Drosophila geneticist and professor of biology at Indiana University Bloomington who studies how DNA replication and cell cycle checkpoints are controlled during development.

Brian R. Crane

Brian R. Crane, born 1968 in Winnipeg, is a Canadian chemist at Cornell University who studies the structures and mechanisms of signaling proteins, including bacterial chemotaxis receptors.

Brian Seed

Brian Seed is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School who leads a lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and discovered the RIP kinase.

Brian Strahl

Brian D. Strahl is a biochemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for the histone code hypothesis proposed with C. David Allis in 2000.

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Brian T. Wimberly

Brian T. Wimberly is an American structural biologist, first author of the 2000 Nature paper reporting the crystal structure of the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit.

Brian W. Howell

Brian W. Howell is a developmental neuroscientist at SUNY Upstate whose laboratory studies how dysfunction in the Reelin-Dab1 signaling pathway contributes to neuronal migration disorders, autism, and Alzheimer's disease.

Brigid L.M. Hogan

Brigid L.M. Hogan is a British-born developmental biologist at Duke University known for pioneering mouse embryology techniques and work on lung development and adult lung stem cells.

Brigitta Stockinger

Brigitta Stockinger, known as Gitta Stockinger, is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for establishing the aryl hydrocarbon receptor as an immune environmental sensor.

Brigitte Kieffer

Brigitte Kieffer is a French molecular neurobiologist known for isolating the first opioid receptor gene and showing the mu receptor mediates morphine's analgesic and addictive effects.

Britt Adamson

Britt Adamson (Brittany S. Adamson) is an American molecular biologist and associate professor at Princeton University, known for co-developing the single-cell CRISPR screening method Perturb-seq.

Britton Chance

Britton Chance (1913–2010) was an American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania who demonstrated the enzyme-substrate complex, invented the dual-wavelength spectrophotometer, and won Olympic sailing gold in 1952.

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Bronislav Verigo

Bronislav Verigo, born Boris Fortunatovich Verigo, was a Russian physiologist whose 1892 work gave his name to the Verigo effect, and who founded physiology at Perm University.

Bruce A. Edgar

Bruce A. Edgar is an American cell and stem-cell biologist at the University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Bruce A. Hay

Bruce A. Hay is a Caltech biologist known for early work on programmed cell death in fruit flies and gene-drive systems that spread malaria-blocking traits through mosquitoes.

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Bruce A. Maguire

Bruce A. Maguire is a ribosome biochemist whose 2005 Molecular Cell paper on protein L27 was cited in the Nobel Committee's 2009 Chemistry advanced information.

Bruce A.J. Ponder

Bruce A.J. Ponder, known as Bruce Ponder, is a British cancer geneticist at Cambridge known for identifying the ret gene and the polygenic model of breast cancer risk.

Bruce Alberts

Bruce Alberts, born in 1938, is an American biochemist at UCSF who led work on DNA replication and served as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bruce Beutler

Bruce Beutler, born 1957 in Chicago, is an American immunologist at UT Southwestern who identified TLR4 as the LPS receptor and shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.